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Description: | 4 ms letters written to his mother during his service as a rifleman in the 1/6th Battalion London Regiment (140th Brigade, 47th Division) on the Western Front from November 1915 until his death in action on the Somme in September 1916, including a statement of his philosophy towards active service and a very interesting account of fraternisation with the Germans in the Vimy Ridge sector in March 1916, together with an official letter (AF B104-83) from his Regiment notifying his family that he was missing (October 1916), a letter from a friend received after his death, and a portrait photograph.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1982-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Harvey, R T | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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